Basic Skills Test Year 3 and 5

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K-Yr 6 Learning Areas Yrs 7-10 Subjects Yrs 11-12 Subjects K-Yr 6 Assessment Yrs 7-12 Assessment Yrs K-12 Focus Areas	Home › Learning and Teaching › K-Yr 6 Assessment › Basic Skills Test Year 3 and 5 Basic Skills Test - Year 3 and 5 The Basic Skills Test (BST) was administered to all Year 3 and Year 5 students in government schools and interested non-government schools in NSW. The BST program provided students, teachers and parents with information about what students knew and could do in the areas of literacy and numeracy. The assessment BST is a curriculum-based assessment, testing students' knowledge and skills in particular aspects of literacy and numeracy. In Literacy, BST assessed writing, reading, grammar and punctuation and in Numeracy, BST assessed the following aspects: Number, Patterns and Algebra, Data, Measurement, Space and Geometry. The National Assessment Program In 2008 The National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy was introduced for all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. The purpose of the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is to assess the literacy and numeracy learning of students in all Australian schools. For further information on NAPLAN go to: NAPLAN National NAPLAN NSW NAPLAN for Parents NSW